Personality Disorder Charts and More

PERSONALITY DISORDERS

1. Enduring patterns of perceiving,
relating to, and thinking about the environment
and oneself
2. These are persistent across time and situations, i.e.,
trait-like
3. They are inflexible and maladaptive

Suicide rate of 8.5%
Females more likely to also have mood disorder and be
self-destructive
Males more likely to also have Attention-deficit disorder or
Antisocial Personality
Many problems in childhood; attachment with parents
Common for them to have been victims of incest or other sexual abuse
as children
Close relatives 5x more likely to be borderline than general
population

Reinforcement Schedule:
Continuous ® Accelerates
acquisition
Intermittent ® Retards
extinction
Animals will bar-press several thousand times in absence of reward
after behavior is established under intermittent reinforcement

Pathological gamblers tend to be:
· self-centered; anxious; frustrated; impulsive
· Gambling associated with "high" and
"withdrawal"
All these features are same as substance abusers